John Hart is a seasoned supply chain executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across FMCG, retail, and omnichannel environments. He currently serves with Leroy Merlin South Africa, where he plays a key role in shaping and strengthening the organisation’s end-to-end supply chain capability to support its growth, customer experience, and digital commerce ambitions.
Throughout his career, John has held senior leadership roles spanning supply chain strategy, logistics optimisation, inventory and network design, and large-scale operational transformation. He has a proven track record of leading complex, multi-node supply chain ecosystems, delivering cost efficiencies, improving service levels, and enabling scalable growth in fast-evolving retail markets.
In his current role at Leroy Merlin South Africa, John is responsible for enhancing both traditional retail and e-commerce supply chain performance, ensuring seamless integration across sourcing, distribution centres, stores, and last-mile fulfilment. His focus includes enabling omnichannel availability, improving inventory visibility and accuracy, strengthening fulfilment speed and reliability, and optimising working capital across the network.
John is recognised for his pragmatic leadership style, strong cross-functional engagement, and ability to translate strategic intent into disciplined operational execution.
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